I’m interested to see what lemmy thinks of this, I honestly haven’t kept track of the potential options.

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    Mao Zedong and Vladimir Lenin have said some positive things about workers’ rights. The others are too far right and would be considered conservatives in other countries.

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    Maria Branyas.

    I think age is important, and Biden just didn’t have the necessary life experience to be a successful candidate 😉

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    The duopoly choice is Bernie Sanders, even though he betrayed his movement and the people that helped fund and grow his grassroots campaign.

    A non-duopoly choice is a 3rd Party candidate, Jill Stien, Green Party.

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      A non-duopoly choice is a 3rd Party candidate, Jill Stien, Green Party.

      Reading her platform, I’d say it’s a no go for me.

      Two bullet points back to back are “Have the UN Security Council hold Israel accountable” and at the same time “end the UN Security Council”. So which is it, use the UNSC to hold Israel accountable or the UNSC is a bad thing?

      Also on her platform, disband NATO and stop giving Ukraine aid. If we do this, then Ukraine and Russia will just hug it out and everyone will be happy. A few unrealistic things like this where it’s way too optimistic and paves the way for things to go horribly wrong.

      Then there are the good intentions, but bad consequences ideas. Pay reparations to third world countries for climate. Historically, “just dump money and resources” has been tried and you just give those to regional warlords that will make things worse. Need a more thought out engagement plan than that.

      Broadly some decent domestic policy goals, but pretty impractical foreign policy ideas.

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        I think Bernie’s earned it though. He may be old, but he’s still mentally intact. Trump was never mentally intact, and Biden…well…yeah. Biden kinda fell off his rocker. Good man. I wish him all the best, and hope he gets the care he needs. However, we don’t really need someone who talks about how we defeated health care running our health care.

        I may hate Trump, but he did have one line that I think sealed the deal for Biden. He said “I don’t know what he said, I don’t think he knows what he said”, and everybody just kind of saddly nodded their head, because it was true.

        But Bernie will be a firecracker up your ass fighting the good fight for every American. And unlike a lot of these politicians, he’s not a phoney. Harris can say that she’s changed, and she now stands to legalize marijuanna, and all this other stuff…but she has a track record. Bernie has a track record too, except he HASN’T changed. There’s photos of him in the 60s getting arrested fighting for civil rights. I’d rather he be president than a younger person who may or may not be who they say they are. Plus I like his policies.

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          with a receptive white house, Bernie will be a firecracker anywhere. I would be more than happy for Bernie to retain his Senate seat and get the committee assignments that give him maximal internal clout.

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          [Bernie] may be old, but he’s still mentally intact.

          At that age mental acuity can go fast. I would vote for Bernie over Trump or Biden in a heartbeat, but I would rather have someone younger.

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          I’m right there with you. Bernie totally could have won the general in 2016, and we’d be in a hell of a lot better place now, but he didn’t, and sadly that time has passed.

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        The anti Bernie propaganda is scared of people rallying around him since Bidens departure

        Theres no real replyabout his “betrayal”

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        While I don’t traffic in such forceful language, I can answer what @criitz means:

        Bernie Sanders raised millions of dollars on the promise to lead a political revolution. For many supporters, that proposition was taken literally. They thought that his campaign was not simply a vehicle to give him the power of the presidency, but was the organizing structure for a persistent movement of activists reengaging with democracy each and every week BETWEEN elections. And when he dropped out, a lot of those people lost their connections to social and organizing structures that were giving them hope and an outlet for meeting like-minded people to find ways to make their communities better. So when he ended his campaign and all that money and infrastructure got instantly packed up and taken away, they felt like they’d been misled.

        Some found their way into activism through the DSA or climate groups, but for many, the way in which he disbanded his campaign without following through on the implied promise to transform it into something durable was a very unexpected and painful surprise.

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          i hadn’t heard this angle articulated before, thanks for sharing.

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          I see, thank you for explaining. I believe Bernie has done pretty much everything he could for decades, but I get how people may have felt misled. It can be very disheartening to try and enact real change in this country.

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    I don’t think that there are any that I would back 100%. There are a lot that I could support 90% or more, like Sanders and Warren. Even AOC.

    OTOH, I also strongly believe in 2A rights–in addition to freedom of/from religion, freedom of speech, freedom of choice, etc.–and there simply are not any Democratic candidates that I’m aware of that support 2A rights. They always say, “I support 2A rights, but…”, and that “but” immediately precedes ideas to restrict 2A rights in significant ways. (“I support 2A rights, but I just don’t think that anyone needs a gun other than a muzzle loading Kentucky long rifle.”)

    In short, I’ll never support any Republican more than, at most, 40%. I have yet to find any Democrat that I can support more than 90%.

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        I think she’s awesome in general. I think her service record and voting record make her a palatable or even desirable candidate for a wide swath of the population, not just Democrats — I’m not one myself, though I vote for more Democrats than any other party’s candidates.

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          Thank you for replying. I considered her for my primary vote, when she ran, but ultimately wrote in my candidate.

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    I think Cory Booker has potential. But a ham sandwich is the most electable candidate today. Just be somewhat alive and not problematic.

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    Quick question, serious question…can we make Zelenskyy a dual citizen, dual president? I’d be good with that.

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      Article II, Section 1, Clause 5:

      No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

      Even if he were a natural born citizen, he’d have to live in the US for 14 years first to be eligible.

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        We could us the Republican style of argument that “years” had a different meaning in the founding father’s era as people died a lot sooner. Therefore “a year” was only the length of what we call “a day” now.

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      One presidency is more than a full-time job. Whilst I do like him cut the poor guy some slack.

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      Dude’s got more than enough on his plate, but maybe we could find an American comedian who plays piano with his dick